Posts Tagged ‘carbon dioxide’

Global warming brings surfing to the Arctic? Well no, not exactly – or, at any rate, not yet! But according to new research, it does seem to be bringing surfer-sized waves. A study carried out by th...
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How's this for serendipity? Last week one of our foremost television presenters asked me if scientists who wanted to investigate the 17-year hiatus in global surface temperatures – often cited by sc...
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One big winner emerges from the Government’s plans to limit rises to fuel bills – the Big Six energy companies. And there is one big loser, Britain’s poorest people. Consumers make relatively sm...
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Rapid increases in the number of diesel cars sold in Britain – promoted as a way of combatting climate change because they emit slightly less carbon dioxide than petrol-driven ones – are e...
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Barack Obama's rip-roaring speech tonight on climate change puts global warming back on the national and international agenda, and dramatically raises hopes both that the world may yet, against all ex...
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No one much seems to have noticed, at least in this country, but we have just witnessed what is probably the most important agreement ever on combating climate change. And it has nothing whatsoever to...
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There have been more than a dozen schemes over the last ninety years or so for building a barrage to tap the vast tidal energy resources of the Severn estuary. Indeed the House of Commons Select Commi...
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After years of dithering by ministers, farmers are finally now able to cull badgers to try to control the spread of bovine TB. But ministers admit that unless it is done properly, the killing will do ...
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Fiji's picturesque Natewa Bay must be a hard place to leave, and for none more so than the villagers of Vunidogoloa, who are preparing to abandon their ancestral home in the face of the rising sea. Bu...
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So, it has finally happened. The tipping point. Now, whatever Prince Charles may claim, it is too late to do anything. We are doomed, totally doomed. We had our chance to save the world from the great...
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